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New York.
Cornell University Press.
1995.
A few black and white photographic illustrations, bibliography, index, xiv + 234pp., very good paperback copy. How did Victorian women - wittingly or unwittingly - serve the cause of empire? Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation. Her work offers a rare close look at the intersection of gender and race in Victorian literature and empire building ...Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral idea, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire - such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire (When referring to this item please quote stockid 61427)
ISBN: 9780801482779
Related Subject Areas:
British India
Empire
India
Literary Criticism
Literature
Raj
South Asia
Women
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